China's New Big Brother Law Is A Clone Of The West's Bad Ideas
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-anti-terror-law-encryption_56801192e4b014efe0d86ed0
Li Shouwei, a government spokesman, told Reuters that
companies won't have to fear any backdoors -- entryways that
bypass a traditional security mechanism -- into their products
and services. But a draft of the legislation that the
International Association of Privacy Professionals analyzed in
March shows that's untrue: China's new law requires Internet
service providers and telecommunications providers to install
government-accessible backdoors and provide encryption keys for
any data stored on their servers. Shouwei also told Reuters that
China was "simply doing what other major nations already do in
asking technology firms to help fight terror." He cited Western
nations' actions as justification, Reuters reported. Although US
leaders have condemned China's laws, they are engaging in the
same rhetoric of national security stateside, suggesting that
technology companies find a magical way to create secure
backdoors through a Manhattan-like project despite technologists
and experts resolutely telling politicians that to do so is to
mandate insecurity.
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